Comments for Neosource Web Development & Software http://www.neosource.com.au/blog My thoughts on technology and other random things Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:41:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Beware of Google’s pre-emptive AdWords landing page checker by Novi Computer Repair http://www.neosource.com.au/blog/2010/12/beware-of-googles-pre-emptive-adwords-landing-page-checker/comment-page-1/#comment-2067 Novi Computer Repair Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:41:00 +0000 http://www.neosource.com.au/blog/?p=24#comment-2067 When strange things happen, Google rarely provides an answer as to why. At least it's fixed now. When strange things happen, Google rarely provides an answer as to why. At least it’s fixed now.

]]> Comment on Why ‘yum search’ returns “Error: file is encrypted or is not a database” [CentOS 6.2] by Luke Macken http://www.neosource.com.au/blog/2012/02/why-yum-search-returns-error-file-is-encrypted-or-is-not-a-database-centos-6-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1834 Luke Macken Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:14:30 +0000 http://www.neosource.com.au/blog/?p=97#comment-1834 Bodhi, the tool that pushes updates for Fedora & EPEL, downloads the 'pkgtags.sqlite' from the PackageDB and injects them into the yum repodata. It looks like we had a PackageDB outage, and bodhi ended up injected the 503 error page instead. I went ahead and fixed this issue so that in the future if it has trouble fetching the tags, it just skips that step. https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/changeset/a5bab8b554807c6b35461c6d719e6b39ddec5b68 Bodhi, the tool that pushes updates for Fedora & EPEL, downloads the ‘pkgtags.sqlite’ from the PackageDB and injects them into the yum repodata. It looks like we had a PackageDB outage, and bodhi ended up injected the 503 error page instead.

I went ahead and fixed this issue so that in the future if it has trouble fetching the tags, it just skips that step.

https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/changeset/a5bab8b554807c6b35461c6d719e6b39ddec5b68

]]> Comment on Why ‘yum search’ returns “Error: file is encrypted or is not a database” [CentOS 6.2] by Michał / Pierwszywgoogle http://www.neosource.com.au/blog/2012/02/why-yum-search-returns-error-file-is-encrypted-or-is-not-a-database-centos-6-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1832 Michał / Pierwszywgoogle Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:05:29 +0000 http://www.neosource.com.au/blog/?p=97#comment-1832 Thanks for this post it saves me lot of time waste on debuging this issue - now it looks like EPEL is fixed. Cheers! Thanks for this post it saves me lot of time waste on debuging this issue – now it looks like EPEL is fixed.

Cheers!

]]> Comment on The elusive Eternity II puzzle – is there a pattern to it? by Joe http://www.neosource.com.au/blog/2010/12/the-elusive-eternity-ii-puzzle-is-there-a-pattern-to-it/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Joe Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:32:21 +0000 http://www.neosource.com.au/blog/?p=21#comment-19 Hi Steve, Yeah it was quite an addictive puzzle, there are still people trying to solve it and discussing new ideas on the Eternity II Yahoo Group. They are more open about their methods since it's the official competition is now over. There are rumours that an electronic version may be released, so it may not be over yet. Regardless of the prizemoney being void, I think if someone does solve it they'll still receive a lot of media attention, and possibly money by means of selling their story or via employment offers from around the world. I did make some interesting observations of the tileset, and may publish them sometime. I'll tinker with it again when I have the time, though my focus is now on more feasable projects :) Hi Steve,

Yeah it was quite an addictive puzzle, there are still people trying to solve it and discussing new ideas on the Eternity II Yahoo Group. They are more open about their methods since it’s the official competition is now over.

There are rumours that an electronic version may be released, so it may not be over yet.

Regardless of the prizemoney being void, I think if someone does solve it they’ll still receive a lot of media attention, and possibly money by means of selling their story or via employment offers from around the world.

I did make some interesting observations of the tileset, and may publish them sometime. I’ll tinker with it again when I have the time, though my focus is now on more feasable projects :)

]]> Comment on The elusive Eternity II puzzle – is there a pattern to it? by Steve http://www.neosource.com.au/blog/2010/12/the-elusive-eternity-ii-puzzle-is-there-a-pattern-to-it/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Steve Thu, 13 Jan 2011 02:33:51 +0000 http://www.neosource.com.au/blog/?p=21#comment-8 Hi Joe, I was just having a look around to see if anyone was discussing Eternity2 given the final scrutiny date had past and I found your blog. You sound a lot like me. I too have spent a serious amount of time on this puzzle in 2010 looking for a logical solution. I had only discovered it in Februray 2010. $6 dollars in a discount bin at a toy shop. Like you, I too seriously thought I had cracked it a number of times, only to reach that dreaded dead-end where a tile could not be placed. If the prize is withdrawn it will be interesting to see if they release a solution and whether it was able to be logically obtained. I hope it isn't random. Cheers, Steve Hi Joe,
I was just having a look around to see if anyone was discussing Eternity2 given the final scrutiny date had past and I found your blog. You sound a lot like me. I too have spent a serious amount of time on this puzzle in 2010 looking for a logical solution. I had only discovered it in Februray 2010. $6 dollars in a discount bin at a toy shop. Like you, I too seriously thought I had cracked it a number of times, only to reach that dreaded dead-end where a tile could not be placed. If the prize is withdrawn it will be interesting to see if they release a solution and whether it was able to be logically obtained. I hope it isn’t random.

Cheers,
Steve

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